Frank Furedi

Professor of Sociology at University of Kent, and author of Wasted: Why Education Isn't Educating, Politics of Fear, Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?, Therapy Culture, Paranoid Parenting and Culture of Fear.
 
       
 

The Battle for Truth
The debate about truth should not be confused with the conflict between religion and science.

At the London Battle of Ideas, 1-2 November 2008, Frank Furedi debated the Battle for Truth with Professor Colin Blakemore, professor of neuroscience at the universities of Oxford and Warwick; Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason; and Professor David Jones, author of Approaching the End: a theological exploration of death and dying.

Watch the debate on Fora TV here

First published by Fora TV, 14 November 2008